Paris Attacks and Encryption.

In addition to the back lash against Syrian refugees because of the Paris attacks (among many other things that have happened afterwards), another thing that has happened over the past week has been people and top officials blaming Edward Snowden for the attacks. (Yes that’s apparently been a thing.)

But the thing is that there should be no blame on Edward Snowden for the attacks in Paris last week. Amy Davidson wrote about how we shouldn’t be blaming Edward Snowden, saying among other things that any disempowerment that may have come from Snowden’s leaks should come from them, as they were the ones breaking the rules. And Glenn Greenwald was on Democracy Now! last week, talking about how US officials have been exploiting the attacks to defend spying and attack Snowden.